Question for Elite heads, What is powering the starports?

5PIDER

5PIDER
Are we talking generators and massive amounts of fuel similar to ship fuel?
Any solar energy being used on starports?
Or are we talking more dark matter or some kind of fusion? :D
Pretty sure a singularity and those types of things are out of the question in the Elite universe at the moment.
They don't have gravity gens or tractors beams either in this universe. :)
 
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grottomatic

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Some stations have large solar panels, the orbis stations and outposts in particular. I imagine that solar power would be ideal, with reactors for when the station is obscured from the main star. The reactors probably use hydrogen fuel for fusion, considering that is what is traded.
 

xtridence

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5PIDER said:
Are we talking generators and massive amounts of fuel similar to ship fuel?
Any solar energy being used on starports?
Or are we talking more dark matter or some kind of fusion? :D
Pretty sure a singularity and those types of things are out of the question in the Elite universe at the moment.
They don't have gravity gens or tractors beams either in this universe. :)
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Cold Fusion + Auxiliary Solar Energy Gathering Systems.

Same as for the mini cold fusion reactor you're carrying on your sidewinder, lol.
 

AluminumAlloy

AluminumAlloy
To what produces the oxygen, you can see lush forest flora in the rings of the Orbis and Ocellus stations. Not sure about the Outposts and Coriolis stations, perhaps they get oxygen imported to from the other two, or from earth-like planets?
 

xtridence

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Midnight_Sun323 said:
You would need an abundance of water for nuclear power, though.
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You know that you can re-use water always, right? Even the water which Urine contains can be drunken, so why shouldn't it work to cool or to generate a flow, specially when it comes to circular gravitational systems which produce gravity because of centrifugal force?
 

Phier

Phier
Assuming that FDS and Jump drives would use an enormous amount of power, I'd guess that stations would be simply fusion powered as they don't jump.

As for getting supplies to the station thats a piece of cake, transport is relatively cheap and abundant.
 

Midnight_Sun323

Midnight_Sun323
%OnePercent% said:
Which sort? Fission or fusion? Both don't need water in the year 3300.
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I would think they would both work the same way? All the reactor does is get really really really hot. You use that heat to boil large amounts of water, and the pressure from the steam turns large turbines connected to generators. Normally, the steam is just vented to atmosphere, but I suppose you could recapture it, maybe?
 

MARPATdroid

MARPATdroid
EMarkM said:
Miniature giant space hamsters.
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I always hated that I could not remove these from my inventory.

But it makes sense something as wise and immovable as a miniature giant space hamster could power a space station indefinitely, just watch out for their crazy handlers.
 

OnePercent

OnePercent
Midnight_Sun323 said:
I would think they would both work the same way? All the reactor does is get really really really hot. You use that heat to boil large amounts of water, and the pressure from the steam turns large turbines connected to generators. Normally, the steam is just vented to atmosphere, but I suppose you could recapture it, maybe?
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You're thinking in the 1950's when light water reactors were the only way to cool fuel rods.

No, they are very different processes.

Quick way of explaining fission/fusion is that fisson is a subtractive solution to harnessing the strong force.

Fusion is an additive solution to harnessing the nuclear forces.
 
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